The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

On January 8, in Tehran, at 5:15 am local time (4:45 Moscow time), Boeing 737 “International Airlines of Ukraine” (MAU) was divided shortly after departure from the Imam Khomeini airport, FARS reports . According to the official representative of Tehran International Airport, the cause of the plane was the engine fire.

On January 8, in the Iranian city of Kerman, General Kasem Suleimani, who was killed by order of US President Donald Trump, was buried, reports Iranian agency ISNA. Hundreds of people came to the funeral, who, during the funeral ceremony, chanted "Death to America!" The funeral took place a few hours after Iran struck American air base in Iraq as a response to the death of a military leader. The responsibility for attacks took upon himself the Corps of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.

Warned in Syria and Libya fighters of the private military company Vagner are treated for free in the St. Petersburg clinic owned by the Sogaz insurance company. The clinic is allegedly related to the environment of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, writes Reuters. The Clinic "Sogaz", opened in 2010 in the center of St. Petersburg, is the first of the network of several institutions created by the insurer.

On January 8, 1963, Leonid Fedorov, a Russian rock musician, leader of the Auktsyon group was born. Personal business Leonid Valentinovich Fedorov (57 years old) was born in Leningrad. He founded his first rock band at the age of fifteen. The team consisted of classmates and was called "Phaeton." “Parents in his youth in every possible way supported and helped. I gathered the first group in the eighth grade, my dad made guitars, ”the musician recalls.

Two Russian sailors were captured by pirates in Nigeria, the Russian Embassy in Nigeria reports . On the night of January 2-3, in the Niger River, the Ambika ship was launched , which is engaged in laying underwater pipelines. As a result, three people were stolen: two Russians and a citizen of India. The Russian Embassy in Nigeria noted that they take all the necessary measures to liberate Russian citizens.

On January 7, at 17:30, the east coast of the United States (January 8 at 01:30 Moscow time), Iranian authorities delivered a missile blow to two military bases in Iraq, on the territory of which there are American military. The Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution stated that the missile blow was inflicted in response to the murder of General Case Suleimani, the ABC television company reports . In total, 15 missiles were released .

The first officially recognized extinction of the species in 2020 - researchers propose to recognize the disappeared one of the largest freshwater fish.

The Historian-Historian, editor-in-chief of the Oriental Express portal, Michael Borodkin, spoke in an interview with the Polit.ru correspondent Ane Goldman about the prospects for the development of the conflict between the United States and Iran and whether this confrontation can be affected by Israel. - What did Iran count on, launching missiles on American bases in Iraq?

Maxim Russo A specimen of an oar in the Wuhan Museum of Hydrobiology Wikimedia Commons The first officially recognized extinction of a species in 2020 - researchers propose to as extinct .

In Nigeria in early January, the pirates captured two Russian sailors. Today they managed to release them, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Naval Forces of Nigeria Suleman Dahun. The pirates captured Ambika and its sailors on the night of January 2-3 in the Niger River Delta. The ship’s team was engaged in laying underwater pipelines. During the shootout between the attackers and the Nigerian rescue group, four Nigerian fleet troops were killed.

This morning, Boeing 737-800 crashed in the area of ​​the International Airport named after Imam Khomeini in Tehran. The airline-owner of the International Airlines of Ukraine (MAU) reported that on January 6, 2020 she conducted scheduled maintenance of this aircraft, Interfax reports . According to the president of the airline Yevgeny Dykhne, Boeing was serviceable. Earlier, the Iranian agency IRNA reported that the cause of the crash of the engine was the fire.

In the Tyumen region, traffic police officers beat the driver and his wife. The woman in the back seat was able to shoot the incident on the video . In the protocol, law enforcement officers wrote that those who were in the car were drunk and “resisted,” writes in the Telegram channel “Urals. MBH Media. " The wife of the driver Ekaterina Danekin said that on January 5, her husband took her with her friends at night and began to carry her home.

The film directed by Klim Shipenko “Solop” became the most cash desk in the history of Russian rental. During the New Year holidays, the picture has earned more than 1.8 billion rubles, the Central Partnership film company reports . On December 26, Russian screens was released on Russian screens. The world premiere passed the next day. The comedy tells the story of a representative of Grisha’s golden youth, who is threatening a prison for all his actions.

IKEA will pay $ 46 million to the parents of two-year-old Joseph Dudek, who died as a result of a 32-kilogram chest of drawers, writes Associated Press. The child died in 2017 from injuries. In 2018, his parents appealed to the Philadelphia Court. They accused the Swedish company of not warning customers about the need to fix the chest of drawers to the wall.